Hame-tug



(No Model.)

G. W. WILLIAMS.

HAME TUG. No. 466,478. Patented Jan. 5, 1892.

Hdi assas- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE W. WILLIAMS, OF BLUE RIDGE, MISSOURI.

HAME-TUG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 466,478, dated January 5, 1892. Application iiled May 20, 1891i Serial No. 393,390. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. WILLIAMS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Blue Ridge, in the county of Harrison and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Combined Trace-Buckle and Haine-Tug, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a combinedv trace-v buckle and hame-tug; and the objects in view areto provide adevice of this class in a cheap and simple manner and one possessing great strength, and by its construction to avoid the I ecessity of using the usual leather loops and to maintain the draft in a straight line.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will appear inthe following description, and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the claim.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l is an elevation of my combined llame-tug and tracebuckle, the same beingin position. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view. Fig. 3 is a detail in perspective of the buckle.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

1 designates the tug-strap, which terminates at its rear end in a loop or eye 2 and is provided with the metal thimble or bushing 3, through which and the side bars 4 of the buckle-frame passes a bolt 5. The side bars of the buckle-frame are connected near their front and rear ends by keepers 6 and 7, respectively, and lie against the leather shield 8, connected to the tug-strap. At their upper and lower sides the side bars have keepers or loops 9 designed to engage with the back-band and girth of the harness.

10 designates a pair of U-shaped bails, the terminals of which are inwardly bent and are pivotally engaged, as at 11, with the opposite side bars. These bails pass through a locking-bar 12 and are adapted to swing with the bar toward and away from the side bars. The locking-bar 12 is chamfered or undercut at its rear end so as to iit upon and overlap the rear keeper 7, and when in such position takes between a pair of eyes 13, located upon said keeper, and may be locked in this position by a pin 13, passed through the eyes and over the locking-bar 12.

14 designates the trace, the same being of ordinary construction and provided at intervals, agreeing in distance apart with lugs 15 upon the under side of the locking-bar 12, with holes 16. The front end of the trace is passed through a slot 17 in the rear end of the VVshield 8, thence through the rear keeper 7,

over the intermediate web' portion connecting the locking-bar, and through the keeper 6. The trace :is first adjusted in the bucklefra1ne,thelocking-barbeingswungoutwardly, after which said bar is swung inwardly upon the keeper 7, so that its lugs l5 will pass through two adjacent holes 16 of the trace, afterwhich the locking-pin is passed through the eyes 13 and the connection is completed. It will be seen that the draft between the tug and trace is maintained in a straight line, and that while the trace-buckle is exceedingly simple in its construction and easily and quickly operated, either to connect or disconnect the trace, the two lugs will serve to double the strength of those buckles employing but one tongue or lug.

Having described my invention, what I claim is The herein-described buckle, comprising the opposite longitudinal improved trace-I side bars connected at their front and rear ends by the keepers 6 and 7 and at the front end having the bolt for engaging the hametug, the opposite eyes 13, mounted upon the rear keeper, the ,U-shaped bails having inwardly-turned ends pivoted in the side bars, the locking-bar 12, through which the bails loosely pass, terminating at its front end in an undercut keeper-overlapping portion and provided upon its inner `side with a pair of trace-engagin g lugs, and a locking-pin passed through the eyes and across the outer side of the locking-bar, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

S. F. SCOTT, B. C. PARNELL. 

